The Wild Girl: A Novel

Type

Book

Authors

Forsyth, Kate

ISBN 10

1250047544

ISBN 13

9781250047540

Tags

Biographical, Australia & Oceania, Mythology & Folk Tales

Abstract

One of the great untold love stories - how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales - filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars. The Wild Girl tells the story of Dortchen Wild.

Description

"Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. It is a time of tyranny and terror: Napoleon Bonaparte wants to conquer all of Europe, and Hesse-Cassel is one of the first kingdoms to fall. Forced to live under oppressive French rule, Wilhelm and his brothers quietly rebel by preserving old half-forgotten tales that had once been told by the firesides of houses grand and small over the land. As Dortchen tells Wilhelm some of the most powerful and compelling stories in what will one day become his and Jacob's famous fairy tale collection, their love blossoms"--Amazon.com.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Romance fiction
Love stories
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Named Person: Wilhelm Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kate Forsyth

ISBN: 9781250047540 1250047544
OCLC Number: 905970285
Description: 495 pages ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Kate Forsyth.

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